Oxford Film Festival Blog

(Originally released July 1, 2013)OXFORD, MS – Oxford Film
Festival is now accepting submissions for the 11th annual film
festival to be held in Oxford, Miss. on February 6-9, 2014.

The festival has created a
new submission process for the 2014 festival. The festival has created its own
online form on its website with flat rates and only two deadlines: September 15, 2013 for “early bird” pricing, and November 15, 2013 for “regular pricing.” The reduced costs for
both the filmmaker and festival will allow more funds raised by the nonprofit
to put toward the event instead of overhead costs.

Early bird pricing begins
July 1 to Sept. 15 and is $15 for short films, $30 for feature films and $5 for
Mississippi music videos. Regular pricing is from Sept. 16 to Nov. 15 and is
$25 for short films, $40 for feature films and $5 for music videos.

Oxford Film Festival is proud to announce the winner of its first screenplay competition. Felicity Flesher’s project Killer Kudzu was selected to be produced as the festival’s next community film project.
“Before writing Killer Kudzu, I had long been inspired by the great kudzu plant and what a fantastic B-movie horror villain this plant that grows a foot a day is, or could be,” Flesher said. “For the Oxford Film Festival Community Film, this idea came back around as the perfect local threat to face a brave Oxford community in the script. As a born-and-bred Oxonian, I know what a beautiful, proud, and strong place Oxford is and I imagined that if a mutant vine took over town, its people would undoubtedly join together to defend their home.”

Flesher is a senior at Carleton College in Minnesota majoring in cinema studies but is originally from Oxford, MS. Her short film Expiration Date played in the 2012 film festival. Her parents, Dale and Tonya Flesher, are accountancy professors at the University of Mississippi.

The short film will be produced this fall by the festival with a director soon to be named.

This will be the fourth annual community film project by the festival but the first time that a call for scripts was utilized to reach out to screenwriters. Screenwriters did not have to be from Oxford but had to take into consideration Oxford's physical locations and characteristics unique to the community.

The script will be made into a narrative short to be premiered at the 11th annual Oxford Film Festival on February 6-9, 2014.

A documentary short by Joe York
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Oxford Film Festival, the University of Mississippi’s Media and Documentary Projects Center teamed up with the festival to create a documentary film starring 10-year-olds from the Oxford/Lafayette County community discussing the joys and trials of being 10 years old.

For Immediate Release - Oxford Film Fest Call for Scripts}
April 8, 2013

Oxford, MS - The Oxford Film Festival is looking for short narrative comedic scripts for its fourth annual community film to be produced this fall.

Scripts are due by June 1 to be in consideration to be produced by the festival. Screenwriters do not have to be from Oxford but must take into consideration Oxford's physical locations and characteristics unique to the community. The script must be 8-12 pages long and include a crowd scene to accommodate about 75-100 extra non-actors. The project can be any genre, with comedy preferred, but must be suitable for all ages.

The selected script may be considered as written but the festival producers may work with the writer on changing some aspects of the script as needed. The selected screenwriter may be present on set to be part of the filmmaking process. The chosen screenwriter will receive full writing credit for the film and will be listed on IMDB. There is no payment for the script.

The script will be made into a narrative short to be premiered at the 11th annual Oxford Film Festival on February 6-9, 2014.

The audience choice award winner for best music video is Wolf Ruffin's "Mother Never Held Me."
The audience choice award winner for best overall film is the documentary feature "An Ordinary Hero" by Loki Mulholland which also won the Hoka award for Best Documentary Feature.